Strongman is the King(con).

Robert Saywitz, the magnificent inker for Strongman Volume 2: Oaxaca Tapout, lives in Brooklyn, just a few neighborhoods over from me. That makes him eminently qualified to have table space at KingCon, Brooklyn’s very own comic convention. It’s happening November 4-7 this year, at the Brooklyn Lyceum (4th Avenue at President St.), just where it was last year. It’s only the con’s second year, so I hope people support it. KingCon seems to be primarily focused on small press from Brooklyn creators, but there are exceptions, and it seems like there will be some big names this year as well.

Anyway, Robert and I shared a table last year for the first con and had a good time, so we’re doing it again this year. Rob was just a newbie to the comics industry back then, and now he’s a grizzled veteran, so it will be fun to see how he approaches the con differently this time around. We’ll have a lot of cool stuff available, including a book of my short stories called “Whirlybird Eggs,” and the image you see below, an amazing Strongman poster Rob put together. Check it out:

Strongman, looking rough, as drawn by Robert Saywitz.

My band will also be playing the after-party (which is actually before the main part of the con on the weekend, but whatever) on Friday night, also at the Lyceum. We’ll be doing just one set, from about 9:15 to 10, so check it out if you can. You may have heard that I have a book coming out the Wednesday after the con entitled 27, all about musicians and such who died at that age, so you can be damn sure we’ll be playing some songs by those luminaries. It’s a cross-promotional hyperstorm! We’ll be sharing the stage with an amazing band fronted by another comics creator, Jeff Burandt (aka Jef UK) – the Americans UK. I can’t wait to see them live. They put together their own little promo poster for the event, which is also supercool – here you go:

KingCon Afterparty Poster!

I think that’s plenty for the moment. Hopefully I’ll see some of you this weekend – it’ll be a blast. And of course, I hope you check out issue 1 of 27, out November 10 from Image Comics/Shadowline! The book has been getting some amazing press coverage, and buzz is building, which generates its own interesting reactions for me. Really, though, anything that helps people find the book is okay by me.